Yes they are. And to me nothing says back woods narrow gauge railroad quite like a gallows turn table.
Another Not the Mik update:
Row one down… 54 rows to go.
5 hours later… 190 shingles with minimal cursing with all interior pin nails trimmed back. How far did 190 shingles get me?
…5 rows.
I’ve found shingling to be a fairly tedious process especially using Titebond-3 (TB3). TB3 is not as viscous as TB2, so it wants to ooze and run everywhere. The shingles then want to slide and warp as moisture seeps in, so they also need to be clamped down. Ultimately after figuring out how to get it right I’m happy with the end result.
Tricks learnt:
I needed to add a number of ever shorter pieces of gaffer tape on top of each other towards the middle of the clamping board, as the wood wanted to arch upwards in the middle, when clamped at each end. This resulted in a more even clamping pressure across the line of shingles on the roof. The ruler was there only to allow me to Center and butt the shingles up against the spacing pencil lines.
After today, I think I might apply to be included in Craig and Devon’s Signature Piece Race as this Not the Mik project appears to meet their requirements of being never ending. 
Also glad I didn’t see those amazing turntables before starting the Not the Mik project. Might have ended up with a whole roundhouse worth of shingling! 
Great build Bill, those shingles look thinner then the ones I made for my water tank. Put a slight radius to the clamp board instead of the tape.
I live 20 minutes from Oneonta NY and they have claimed to have the largest turntable at the time (now gone). Oneonta (Otsego County), New York History Facts
Just love the two pictured, be a fun build too, now where would I put one ? 
Thanks for the idea Mark. It was a spur of the moment solution as TB3 sets up at 30 minutes and I didn’t want to wash off the shingles and create something by hand. The tape appears to be doing the job.
I haven’t really tooled up for a large radial cut. A full sized band saw until recently could only be wishful thinking on my part. Living in rental properties for years limited tool sizes. So far I get the job done with hand tools and little model machines.
THICKNESS PLANER
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About ⅔rds along the drive to my local railway club meetings lies the roundhouse and the town of Junee. It’s about a 10-12 hour drive there and another 5 or so to Sydney.
At the time it was built in 1947, it had the longest turntable in the southern hemisphere at 100 feet in length. The Roundhouse has 42 repair bays, and until the demise of steam in the early 1960’s, reportedly had a large elevated coal stage and a de-ashing pit.
It was set to be torn down after it closed in 1993 but was saved by the locals and made into a museum. Ironically the museum has been able to keep in the railroad business as ½ of the facility is now being used for maintaining diesels.
Does the framework in the middle make this a gallows turntable? It doesn’t seem to support anything except the power line.
We have tonnes of traverses or transfer tables in Oz. I doubt they would have been in my epoch. Transfer Tables that only move side to side for parallel track transfer might be something for the future!
More about Transfer Tables
Nice round house, that’s great that they saved it, it’s a shame they didn’t save the one in Oneonta.
You’re tools are on the opposite of mine I started out with a lathe that can turn 9 foot long (274cm), then got a 12 inch (30cm) Joiner and a 36 inch (91cm) Band saw, 12 inch (30cm) table saw. Yours are better suited for model making.
…until they’re not. Once I get the stock down to size, they’re wonderful. (Although I really wish the saw was set up for arbor cuts)
You’ve done some really nice small things with your big machines.
That’s an impressive round house.
And speaking of laths, the answer to the old question “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” Is “Depends on the diameter of the headstock and the length of the bed on his (the woodchuck’s) wood lath.”
Running and dodging, David Meashey
When can I enroll @WaverlySouthern @Devon_Sinsley?
I’m struggling with how to make a set of louvers to fit this space with tinkercad
Is this in the ballpark of what you are trying to do, Bill? Realize I just through this together as an example You can have thinner louvers further or closer apart, different angles, etc.
Or do you want something you can open & close?
I can walk you through how to create what you want in Fusion. I can make a video or we can get on a Zoom or Teams call one evening/day and work on it together if you like. Glad to help.
Hey Dan,
Thanks so much. There appears to be crucial step(s) I’m missing as Fusion appears to work quite differently to tinkercad despite being owned by the same company.
We should probably start with the basics as I have only been able to import a STL into fusion 360 but never been able to adapt or export an STL.
The space I’m trying to fit louvers into is a parallelogram shape. I wouldn’t mind just louvers but I’m thinking that a set of louvers in a round casement might be easier to fit. I’m not convinced both sides of my building are exactly at the same angle.
I’d like for the vent to work, to provide some airflow for the building. Washington DC is 14.5 hours behind us and San Francisco is 17.5 behind. Daylight Savings Time ends 07 April here too (as we head into winter). What works best for you?
Or you could just buy some unless you need smaller than1 inch
https://www.google.com/search?q=small+round+louvers&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS999US999&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgBECMYJxjqAjIJCAAQIxgnGOoCMgkIARAjGCcY6gIyDwgCEC4YJxjHARjqAhjRAzIJCAMQIxgnGOoCMgkIBBAjGCcY6gIyCQgFECMYJxjqAjIJCAYQIxgnGOoCMhIIBxAuGCcYrwEYxwEY6gIYjgXSAQkxNDU3ajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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So what’s going to be the bet get the 3 of us over the finish line? I can’t really mail you creampuffs.
I just cleaned up the garage after the mess of the MIK project and now only have the workbench to clean then I can get back to the neverending project.
It’s now 16:48 here in sunny, east central Alabama so, if my math is correct, it must be 07:18 in the land down under. I can be available most any day between 07:30 and 11:30, your time. I will send you PM with my email address and we can take this discussion offline.
In the meantime, here is what I think you want. I’m providing multiple perspectives because its hard to see due to the lack of contrast.
This a functional vent, but it is static, does not close.
My shoulder muscles haven’t worked out this much in years and I’m still not halfway through shingling this roof.
It’s like being a back-up singer in the “Put your hands in the air” music video. No wait, more like a badly made military movie! Give me 190 soldier! Measure, glue, stand, sit, shingle, clamp, mop up excess, check, repeat…
Shirley you can’t be serious?
Btw, I have a folder in my school computer labeled “memes”… I’m glad to see someone else shares my odd sense of humor (homour)
Yes. An odd sense of Homour
Edit: …and don’t call me Shirley.
why shouldn’t he? - you are not in Kansas, aren’t you?
In the famous words of Stg Schultz I see nothing.